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New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.
Immunologists confirm an old hunch: T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.
A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets.
Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth’s size.
Skyrocketing animal diversity a half-billion years ago was linked to spikes and dips in marine oxygen levels, according to a detailed geological study.
A strange glow coming from the Milky Way’s center was thought to be due to ordinary pulsars. But a new look at a years-old study shows that dark matter might still be responsible.
New work raises the estimated diversity of viruses in the seas more than twelvefold and lays the groundwork for a better understanding of their impact on global nutrient cycles.
Quantum computers can’t selectively forget information. A new algorithm for multiplication shows a way around that problem.
Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses strategically manipulate and cooperate with one another.